Improvement in carpet-bags



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS GROEII, OF NEWARK, NEV JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-BAGS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,815. dated November 7, 1865.

the same, reference being had to the accom,

much by their possessors or owners as by the employs of railroads and steam-boat companies, in throwing them into and out ot' the cars, Svc., soon so injures the corners ot' the bottom pieces as to render the bags in a short time useless and unserviceable, thus necessitating the frequent purchase ot' a new one.

To prevent this destruction ot' the corners of travelingbags, Ste., is the object ot' the present invention and is secured thereby. it consisting in attaching to the same metallic corner-pieces made of such a form that they can be readily and with no trouble fastened upon the bags, increasing their expense or cost in no material degree.

In accompanying plate ot' drawings my iml provement is illustrated, Figure l being an exterior view of the bottom piece of a travelingbag having its corners protected by metallic plates; Fig. 2, a viewof theinteriorface of the same, and Fig. 3 a sectional view of one of the corner-pieces detached from the bottom.

a a in the drawings represent the bottom piece of a traveling-bag made ot' any of the ordinary materials used therefor and of any suitable size and shape, showing a portion, b, of the sides ofthe bag secured thereto in any proper manner.

Grepresents the corners otl the bottom piece, each protected by a corner-piece, d, ot' the form represented in Fig. 3, which consists in making them with a tlange,f, upon and around th eir edges that coincide with the corner edges of the bottom piece, equal in width to the thick ness of the same, so as to tit closely around and cover its edges, and with a series of sharp prongs or pins, lt L. 'Ihese pins h L, when the corner-pieces are applied to the bottom piece ofthe bag, are driven through it and then nipped and bent over upon the inside, as represented at Z lin Fig.2, thus trmlyand tightly holding them in position, the ordinary nails with heads, m mf, being driven through the plates, asis now the ease with bags not provided with corner-pieces.

The corner-pieces may be made of any deslred but suitable kind of met-al orother material-such as, for instance, sheet tin, iron,&;c., 

